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we can use it to use whatever we need to do. primarily they are a deterrent force. they are a fourth multiplier. the navy does not have a choice. cannot recall who mentioned it. if you look at the u.s. navy budget and composition, 60 of the navy touches something that has to do with the aircraft carrier. that is what goes into it, the ships that say with it, etc. you can see the damage that would be done to our world wide forces. i reference the marine corps. we would be giving up a lot. we saw this partly in iraq. the inability for us to negotiate in any sort of military service for the long term would have ambushed with a lot of intelligence. in the region we would have had naval support as well. we gave it up to iran as part of the deal. >> help us out a bit. would you like to add to what she is already given us? >> great points. they're looking to do things differently. there's only so far this can possibly go. i will look at why the cuts that she alluded to would be too extreme. last spring a sequestration was about to hit. they decided not to send a second car
we can use it to use whatever we need to do. primarily they are a deterrent force. they are a fourth multiplier. the navy does not have a choice. cannot recall who mentioned it. if you look at the u.s. navy budget and composition, 60 of the navy touches something that has to do with the aircraft carrier. that is what goes into it, the ships that say with it, etc. you can see the damage that would be done to our world wide forces. i reference the marine corps. we would be giving up a lot. we saw...
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they make it available to us and we will use it. that insecurity makes people think the al qaeda, well, how can we use them against our enemy. that is why we have the into related problem pakistan. so americans sometimes don't. >> i was worried before. now i'm really worried. i mean, you cannot be ambassador just described a country with a deep psychosis. it has nuclear weapons. the question that a generation of american policy makers has been asking is how we talked to a country that has this kind of psychosis, this anxiety about its relationship with america, its mission to put in the of. so many different ways have been tried. .. here is what i don't think we should do. i think we have engaged with pakistan and its best mudlick way so what happens is 1971 we have a relationship earlier during the cold war because pakistan's geography and the fact that they were essentially on our side made them very good partners there. when we wanted wet henry kissinger wanted to go into china they were useful to help him get into china secretly
they make it available to us and we will use it. that insecurity makes people think the al qaeda, well, how can we use them against our enemy. that is why we have the into related problem pakistan. so americans sometimes don't. >> i was worried before. now i'm really worried. i mean, you cannot be ambassador just described a country with a deep psychosis. it has nuclear weapons. the question that a generation of american policy makers has been asking is how we talked to a country that has...
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there were soldiers using profanity, myself using profanity. i think c-span did a little bit of luring. -- blurring. but it was a pretty graphic video which was on c-span, which is not crazy boundary pushing journalism trying to shock people. it is a responsible organization that broadcast that footage. is a lack of reality-based reporting on the wars? readers need to know where to find it, but it is definitely out there. >> thanks for your call. you mentioned the coverage of the incident we did. all of the video you shot for us over the years is available in our video library. where are you off to next? you are off to syria? going to will be northern syria, based in turkey, to cover the fighting in a city called aleppo. we will be trying to understand who the syrian rebels are, what they want, how america is increasingly becoming involved, and to spend some time with the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have been displaced to the conflict. thanks for joining us this evening. we appreciate it. we are looking at media coverage of wars. we h
there were soldiers using profanity, myself using profanity. i think c-span did a little bit of luring. -- blurring. but it was a pretty graphic video which was on c-span, which is not crazy boundary pushing journalism trying to shock people. it is a responsible organization that broadcast that footage. is a lack of reality-based reporting on the wars? readers need to know where to find it, but it is definitely out there. >> thanks for your call. you mentioned the coverage of the incident...
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tell us what happened. tell us how and wher what we got wrong. she appointed tom pickering, and mike mueller, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, to nonpolitical centrist career civil servants. and they came back with a hard hitting report that said the state department had made lots of mistakes, that we were not set up to provide adequate security in benghazi for ambassador stevens and his colleagues that day, but they revealed no cover a. i don't see. i think most of the controversy is politically induced. [applause] >> so, the question is what is the role of secrecy and diplomacy? and extended from that, what are your feelings about mr. snowden and the relations between the united states and russia now that he has been granted -- >> i thought it was a friendly audience? [laughter] i know that, look, i will give you what i think. i may be wrong about all of this. i think there's a real tension, and always has been, but particularly in a globalized, highly integrated internet society of the type we have now. there's a tension between s
tell us what happened. tell us how and wher what we got wrong. she appointed tom pickering, and mike mueller, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, to nonpolitical centrist career civil servants. and they came back with a hard hitting report that said the state department had made lots of mistakes, that we were not set up to provide adequate security in benghazi for ambassador stevens and his colleagues that day, but they revealed no cover a. i don't see. i think most of the controversy...
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they thought of us as spies. people used to look at us as if we were happy to have explosions. they did not know we were trying to bring the truth and talk about what really happened. most of the threats were coming from the armed groups, the insurgency and sometimes american forces. not a lot from iraqi forces. after a while, it changed. no one was allowed to work. now after the americans are gone we saw the iraqi army and the police are becoming more hostile. it was very usual to get beat up by the army or police, have the camera broken. also, we started seeing journalists targeted because they work for this specific newspaper or radio station or tv channel, and now we are having journalists targeted because they are sunni or shiite. >> when you look at some of the statements about news organizations and the accusations of them being subversive or are working against the national interest. it could have been statements issued by the coalition press authority a decade ago. talk a little about the restrictions you guys faced as journalists imposed by the u.s. military and the d
they thought of us as spies. people used to look at us as if we were happy to have explosions. they did not know we were trying to bring the truth and talk about what really happened. most of the threats were coming from the armed groups, the insurgency and sometimes american forces. not a lot from iraqi forces. after a while, it changed. no one was allowed to work. now after the americans are gone we saw the iraqi army and the police are becoming more hostile. it was very usual to get beat up...
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, police used in particular operations, police have a warrant to storm the state and want to use the drone as part of the operation we have no problem with that. we think those are a lot of good uses for drones in those areas. there might be particular rules that need to be worked out around if a drone is being used to search for somebody and it happens to fly over private people's houses and the backyard we think there should be rules that govern how those are handled and the sharing of them so people whose houses happened to be flown over the privacy that is dated but we're focused on that surveillance, watching everybody all the time. we think drones have technology that has a lot of potential to do good and really it is in everybody's interest to pin down the privacy question, put in place common sense protection and we don't have to worry about privacy, that will free public safety agencies to use these technologies without the clout of big brother hanging over us. >> did you have something to say on that topic? >> this year, boston police department use an online system over th
, police used in particular operations, police have a warrant to storm the state and want to use the drone as part of the operation we have no problem with that. we think those are a lot of good uses for drones in those areas. there might be particular rules that need to be worked out around if a drone is being used to search for somebody and it happens to fly over private people's houses and the backyard we think there should be rules that govern how those are handled and the sharing of them...
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us too much. i don't see that. they expected a ploy. they know what they're getting into. they want predictability as much as possible, but they do want an opportunity to deploy. so what i think we have to do, we have to figure out, what is that right active component reserve component makes that the nation needs for security? a strategic hedge against a very uncertain world, but how do we maintain an all volunteer force both active and reserve component balance and then not break the fate of our people? our people, our warriors to expect to deploy. just over the weekend and number of difference that -- states. 2430 in each group. every time i would ask how many did -- how many times deployed, one-third to one-half of the group have already deployed. how many want to deploy in the future? every hand goes up. and is a balance we have to look at. we do need to continue to the gate -- indeed in the operational missions of our services. we have to look like the army in the air force and have missions
us too much. i don't see that. they expected a ploy. they know what they're getting into. they want predictability as much as possible, but they do want an opportunity to deploy. so what i think we have to do, we have to figure out, what is that right active component reserve component makes that the nation needs for security? a strategic hedge against a very uncertain world, but how do we maintain an all volunteer force both active and reserve component balance and then not break the fate of...
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us? >> thank you so much, ellen to you and stimson college, first of all for orchestrating this conversation. to use the adjective in your invitation, this is a messy issue, and we're discussing it at a messy time. as we all know, the o.i.f. era is fading. there are still chronic violence and instability that affects various parts of the world, and yet large scale stabilization and reconstruction activities are not well beloved, either by would be recipients or by would be suppliers. it is a huge challenge. i think it is an enduring issue, but it is a very messy time. so to navigate up toward stuart's proposal, let me give a little bit of context here. those of us working on stabilization issues in the last few years have really been focused on three urgent emergent issues. the first is the retrospective piece. looking back at the lessons. ere i give a big shoutout to stuart and colleagues for all they have known the iraq context to really explicate good solid lessons from the field. your
us? >> thank you so much, ellen to you and stimson college, first of all for orchestrating this conversation. to use the adjective in your invitation, this is a messy issue, and we're discussing it at a messy time. as we all know, the o.i.f. era is fading. there are still chronic violence and instability that affects various parts of the world, and yet large scale stabilization and reconstruction activities are not well beloved, either by would be recipients or by would be suppliers. it...
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for young women, a lot of what we're doing in news, we use the technology that college women are using, speak to them through their professors and other students, and peers, and try to meet the more they are. >> on a similar front, marilinda garcia, what do you think could be done, what would be your advice to get more young women to run for office? >> i think programs like this are important because they showcase people liked karin do wonderful work, other elected officials around the country we are around in the country. it seems to me -- the most important thing for me, was that somebody actively encourages someone to take that step. there have been studies done about corporate involvement with women, all these other sectors, and what they always say is with women, despite all the things being equal -- they are qualified, intelligent, capable, accomplished just as much as their male counterparts, we tend to question our qualifications, the timing, all of these things, and not run for that promotion, not ask for the salary raise. i think there is an intersection with politics there,
for young women, a lot of what we're doing in news, we use the technology that college women are using, speak to them through their professors and other students, and peers, and try to meet the more they are. >> on a similar front, marilinda garcia, what do you think could be done, what would be your advice to get more young women to run for office? >> i think programs like this are important because they showcase people liked karin do wonderful work, other elected officials around...
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you can send us a tweet and use #firstladies. there are people wanting to know about martha jefferson. they are thinking, what happened. we talked about dolley madison's role. what happened to martha jefferson? >> she and jefferson were married for 10 years. she died in childbirth. she was a little or when she moved into the white house. she needed someone to oversee these parties when both sexes were pleasant. it was thought to be unseemly. he would ask dolley madison. >> he did not entertain very much. >> he entertained in a private way. he did not have large entertainments like washington or atoms or the madison spirit >> the capital was getting used to that. >> i think there was criticism. because he did not invite the women as often as he did the man. he preferred to have a lot of mail company and conduct actual political conversations. he also did away with all kinds of rank and protocol. he wanted everyone to be treated as equal. thought that was what it was all about. >> james madison and thomas jefferson were very close
you can send us a tweet and use #firstladies. there are people wanting to know about martha jefferson. they are thinking, what happened. we talked about dolley madison's role. what happened to martha jefferson? >> she and jefferson were married for 10 years. she died in childbirth. she was a little or when she moved into the white house. she needed someone to oversee these parties when both sexes were pleasant. it was thought to be unseemly. he would ask dolley madison. >> he did...
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thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> back to our comments on c- span town hall this evening, asking you for the next 45 minutes or so, is the cost of college worth it? south dakota, democratic caller. caller: hello. how are you doing? >> doing fine, thank you. caller: good. >> is the cost of college worth it? caller: definitely worth it. i earned a bachelor's degree from the university of south dakota. with that, i was not able to do a lot. they did not do a teaching track. i eventually started writing proposals and got a contract to native american cultural training. i cannot tell you any other experience that was more valuable to me. and to the poor as well. i am on my way to the montana state university to earn a masters degree in native american studies. >> the whole process started after you received your undergraduate degree? caller: right. >> good luck, montana state? caller: correct. >> good luck. let's hear from another student, michelle in st. petersburg, florida. caller: hi. i went to a four-y
thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> back to our comments on c- span town hall this evening, asking you for the next 45 minutes or so, is the cost of college worth it? south dakota, democratic caller. caller: hello. how are you doing? >> doing fine, thank you. caller: good. >> is the cost of college worth it? caller: definitely worth it. i earned a bachelor's degree from the university of south dakota. with that, i was not able to do a lot. they did not do a...
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when you give us a call, tell us what you really riding the tell us what the story is really about. i had a reporter called up and asked me a question about standards for technology. okay, why did you want to know about the standards in x-ray technology? welcome he was writing about standards of x-ray technology. he was writing about how they're fighting industry. he was using that as an example. because in our interaction he finally opened up and told me what he was was writing it i was able to give them an enormous story on standards and how they are applied, and how they are set. instead of just michael focusing on the initial question, which was writing about the x-ray. so tell us what you'r what you y writing about and we can help you better. and don't automatically assume that the government is evil and we are hiding stuff. because that is not the case. journalists have a code of ethics. trust but verify, but also not to violate the truth. just as welcome the government public affairs folks, believe it or not we have a code of ethics, and that code of ethics from the national
when you give us a call, tell us what you really riding the tell us what the story is really about. i had a reporter called up and asked me a question about standards for technology. okay, why did you want to know about the standards in x-ray technology? welcome he was writing about standards of x-ray technology. he was writing about how they're fighting industry. he was using that as an example. because in our interaction he finally opened up and told me what he was was writing it i was able...
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us. the reason many in parliament oppose the arming of the rebels, the official civil war, the real risk of escalating the violence and, therefore, the suffering. no matter how clinical the strikes, there is a real risk, i suggest, that the violence is escalating, that he can only result in that. what assurance can cd, therefore, that this was escalated violence in the country and beyond theory and borders? >> we do not agree about every aspect of serial policy. that, no. the point i would make is if we were to take action, it would be purely and simply by degrading and did during chemical weapons worry aboutn we escalation, the greatest escalation we have in front of us is the danger of additional chemical weapons if nothing is done. this motion, this issue is not about arming the rebels. it is not arming the rebels. it is not about changing our approach on syria. it is about chemical weapons, and something i think everybody in this house has an interest in. >> thank you for giving way.
us. the reason many in parliament oppose the arming of the rebels, the official civil war, the real risk of escalating the violence and, therefore, the suffering. no matter how clinical the strikes, there is a real risk, i suggest, that the violence is escalating, that he can only result in that. what assurance can cd, therefore, that this was escalated violence in the country and beyond theory and borders? >> we do not agree about every aspect of serial policy. that, no. the point i...
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it's an opportune to use these technology skills that you've got to help us find and put us in contact with families who had veterans or displaced persons during world war ii that have things that in the years ago and become in the next five to 10 years when we lose the rest of our world war ii veterans. i lost my dad five years ago. the things that are hanging on walls in basements and in attics, they will all have a new owner. we are at great risk for these things and four leverages our old musty documents of being thrown away. this is the chance to help with the tip of the iceberg we're getting ready now to see the last, help things get back to the people they belong to. so it's a great moment, and so for that reason we're spending a lot of time with the work of on the foundation, and the film coming up. i'll be headed back to berlin, and when i'm done with the book tour here, and then doing whatever i'm asked to do by the people involved with that as the fall picture, but really the work focuses now on the foundation. the writing of the book is something that i do. the foundation,
it's an opportune to use these technology skills that you've got to help us find and put us in contact with families who had veterans or displaced persons during world war ii that have things that in the years ago and become in the next five to 10 years when we lose the rest of our world war ii veterans. i lost my dad five years ago. the things that are hanging on walls in basements and in attics, they will all have a new owner. we are at great risk for these things and four leverages our old...
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but something is holding us back. something is holding us back. and to me, it's the group in congress. obstructionism and extremism that's holding us back and preventing too many americans from realizing the promise of america. look at the crew that graced your state in the past two months talking about shutting the government down again. their goal, they want to cause one big government traffic jam. the only problem -- they won't pay for the roads and bridges to get it out of it. there are two things that really bug me about this obstructionism. first, they seem to forget these are real people that would be affected by these moves. and even in the midst of the recovery, we all know people. the kid in cedar rapids who wants to become a teacher but can't afford college. the dad who lost his jobs at the kraft foods in mason city and wants to be retrained but can't quite get the right program so he gettings it skills to go back to work to support his family. or the family in waterloo who's working harder and harder and harder to pay that mortgage. i
but something is holding us back. something is holding us back. and to me, it's the group in congress. obstructionism and extremism that's holding us back and preventing too many americans from realizing the promise of america. look at the crew that graced your state in the past two months talking about shutting the government down again. their goal, they want to cause one big government traffic jam. the only problem -- they won't pay for the roads and bridges to get it out of it. there are two...
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vincent's lie to all of us. two weeks before the final result they told me everything was good with their budget. clearly, it was an. maybe if we moved more quickly, if they hadn't lied, things could differ but i'm proud of the efforts many of us did they kept st. vincent's open for months, but at the end of the day, st. vincent's canceled its contract for staff and that killed a. that first reason, if it had gone through without opposition, might have been a glimmer of hope. and it's sad now a protest where st. vincent used to be, the public advocate stance with people who went and testified against the that reselling. people like susan sarandon who said they would never send their children there. so you have to be what you are for all of the time. >> you have time to respond. >> let me say a word to the audience. to the extent that get those little outburst, it takes away time from all of the candidates and we don't want that to happen. we want to make sure everybody gets hurt. we will have a very quick respon
vincent's lie to all of us. two weeks before the final result they told me everything was good with their budget. clearly, it was an. maybe if we moved more quickly, if they hadn't lied, things could differ but i'm proud of the efforts many of us did they kept st. vincent's open for months, but at the end of the day, st. vincent's canceled its contract for staff and that killed a. that first reason, if it had gone through without opposition, might have been a glimmer of hope. and it's sad now a...
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let us breathe, let us live our lives, let us be americans. >> we are spending the evening asking our viewers and listeners whether they find town halls helpful. as a congressman, do you find these meetings helpful? >> absolutely. we are unique because of how large our district is. we have 26 counties. there are a few congressmen and congress women that have a larger district than that, but the only way we can communicate effectively with everybody is through town hall meetings. there isn't a media source that andcan cover our entire district. we have to go to them. in our campaign, what we heard over and over again was people said the only time they ever saw their congressman was during the campaign cycles. that is not who we are. we want to make sure we are accountable to the individual and the only way we can be accountable is to make sure that we stand in front of them and hold ourselves accountable. host: this is your first opportunity. you were elected last november. how does this feel compared to campaigning? >> it probably feels a little bit better because we are in a situatio
let us breathe, let us live our lives, let us be americans. >> we are spending the evening asking our viewers and listeners whether they find town halls helpful. as a congressman, do you find these meetings helpful? >> absolutely. we are unique because of how large our district is. we have 26 counties. there are a few congressmen and congress women that have a larger district than that, but the only way we can communicate effectively with everybody is through town hall meetings....
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none of us look-alike. and i think that's a, that's a tremendous challenge in trying to find a harmonious way to do business as sort of the federal or the at the enterprise level. can it be done? absolutely. i think we're doing things at homeland security quite frankly don't often get a lost attention but are beginning to knit the organization together but very, very important to sort of set sort of timelines and expectations clear. you know, you can not do this overnight. you probably can't do it. in a year or two. it takes time. and one of the things we've got to have is sort after temporal sense. how long is it going to take to do these things? what are the right things to be looking at sort of year in, year out, that demonstrate progress? there's a tendency here very much to look at, for example, the fine work of this report and say, well, if you can't do it within six months it is not worth doing. you really have to have a long view. it takes time, it takes efforts. that's where we're finding in many o
none of us look-alike. and i think that's a, that's a tremendous challenge in trying to find a harmonious way to do business as sort of the federal or the at the enterprise level. can it be done? absolutely. i think we're doing things at homeland security quite frankly don't often get a lost attention but are beginning to knit the organization together but very, very important to sort of set sort of timelines and expectations clear. you know, you can not do this overnight. you probably can't do...
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its use. it is silly to worry about something about that. there are so many more important is to talk about. >> you drew the contrast with juliet tyler who brought dancing to the white house. who ended her brief tenure by throwing a huge party as they left the white house. was sarah polk more in touch with the times? >> sarah polk -- it has been called an imperial presidency. meaning that the couple fought the office of the presidency and the white house as the official executive residence needed to be highly respected. it was more formal protocol and so on. it was a very liberal approach. you could come with an introduction to any of their receptions. polk was a democrat. at the same time, they were well dressed, there were more formal dinners. there were multiple courses. it was considered an honor to be at the white house. basically, sarah polk said, dancing at the white house is not dignified. >> she was known for frugality. the president making a $25,000 a year salary, and expenses for th
its use. it is silly to worry about something about that. there are so many more important is to talk about. >> you drew the contrast with juliet tyler who brought dancing to the white house. who ended her brief tenure by throwing a huge party as they left the white house. was sarah polk more in touch with the times? >> sarah polk -- it has been called an imperial presidency. meaning that the couple fought the office of the presidency and the white house as the official executive...
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let us use as much leverage as we want. in bad times, you cannot raise our capital treaty would hurt our ability to lend. i tune it out at this point. an interesting thing. risk weight now is you have a pretty tough capital requirement for loans. it is securities and derivatives and have extremely high leverage funding so with the leverage ratio you will be reducing the capital advantage of securities and troubadours over lending. >> if the new capital requirements do go do go through, what it cause the nation's largest angst to be -- break up and become smaller? >> there is a lot of hyperbole. they probably -- they may need to get smaller. people say that is terrible. i do not think that is a bad thing at all. >> do you think downsizing would unlock economic growth western mark >> that is right. it is complexity more than size. large --nly that the the larger you are the difficult it is for you to manage. part of the book will be reduced i do not think that is about thing. if the fed continues with higher levels of leverag
let us use as much leverage as we want. in bad times, you cannot raise our capital treaty would hurt our ability to lend. i tune it out at this point. an interesting thing. risk weight now is you have a pretty tough capital requirement for loans. it is securities and derivatives and have extremely high leverage funding so with the leverage ratio you will be reducing the capital advantage of securities and troubadours over lending. >> if the new capital requirements do go do go through,...
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what they're used to. they have all been competing for that, and they -- everything that's what employers want. frankly, i think we've got a whole lot more out of me writing evaluations of them in a more detailed way that talks about their strengths and weaknesses, what they brought to the table, more like a letter of recommendation and a letter grade. >> do you find a difference between students who take out student loans are students who have their parents pay for it or have -- >> not that, but i do find a difference between students to work and those who don't. so the students who are working, this is their money, write-in. students to take out the loans, it is eventually going to be their money, but to them it's kind of summer in the future. those who are working, they're putting in the sweat equity right now to get the education, and i think that they're generally more since students, and they certainly demand more of all of us in the classroom. >> in the book, "how to succeed in college," you have a
what they're used to. they have all been competing for that, and they -- everything that's what employers want. frankly, i think we've got a whole lot more out of me writing evaluations of them in a more detailed way that talks about their strengths and weaknesses, what they brought to the table, more like a letter of recommendation and a letter grade. >> do you find a difference between students who take out student loans are students who have their parents pay for it or have -- >>...
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nobody had used that term. it was a little bit of insight that whatever happened in the mind is registered in the brain. you can't have a mental event without a brain representation. our could you? after the brain is what made the event. the brain representation is in the form of electrochemical event. there's nothing that happens in the brain that is not registered in the body. these chemicals, neuro peptides. the education centuries presentation i have a gut feeling made sense. it was molecule of emotion. he would tell you the gut makes the same chemical the brain does. this is a scientific background. the body of information. and the information is -- [inaudible] it's from consciousness. any physician will tell you you have two patients who get the same treatment who see the same doctor, have the same ill p -- illness and different outcome. the prognosis wouldn't be called proking in sis is -- [inaudible] people on this side and people on this side. and you can accurately make a diagnose is. you can never ac
nobody had used that term. it was a little bit of insight that whatever happened in the mind is registered in the brain. you can't have a mental event without a brain representation. our could you? after the brain is what made the event. the brain representation is in the form of electrochemical event. there's nothing that happens in the brain that is not registered in the body. these chemicals, neuro peptides. the education centuries presentation i have a gut feeling made sense. it was...
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that may be less true for us today. we have gone from a society where about one 40th of young people went to college a century ago to where about two-thirds are pursuing some form of education after high school and this obviously changes everything in the economics of higher education. and it seems to have produced as today's book suggests a debt-financed glut of b.a. holders. many of us like bill and david did have noticed it parallels to our debt-financed glut of houses and condos when it comes to higher education finance. our debt financing is especially a problem if what is being financed is consumption, not investment. if as it has been suggested for a large number of students college is not an investment but consumption, four fun filled years before they have to settle down to a adult life. these and many more interesting and challenging problems of college education, college invocation, runaway college costs and the debt explosion financing them are discussed in this insightful and practical book. for bill and da
that may be less true for us today. we have gone from a society where about one 40th of young people went to college a century ago to where about two-thirds are pursuing some form of education after high school and this obviously changes everything in the economics of higher education. and it seems to have produced as today's book suggests a debt-financed glut of b.a. holders. many of us like bill and david did have noticed it parallels to our debt-financed glut of houses and condos when it...
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now we use hispanic broadly. i'm an american, so i use it central and south americans. asians have outnumbered them in term of the lawful migration system. and the gulf is getting wider every and every year. asia is the new source going forward of immigrants to the united states. it's going the new historical dynamic. so i predict my kid, when they are adults. they will look back and say, alex, why were so many people upset about his cantic or mexican immigrant. it's absurd. these indians or, you know, these southeast asians. they are different. they are taking our jobs this time. that's when i'm going to hear, i think, in the future not only from my kids if i have done a poor job educating them but also people in society. >> it's fascinating and encouraging discussion. i hope our friends on capitol hill pay attention to the points made today and read out of the book on sale here at the discount for all of you interested. thank you all for coming. please, join me in thanking our great speakers today. [applause] >> a luncheon following upstairs. sanjiv.me to years befo a
now we use hispanic broadly. i'm an american, so i use it central and south americans. asians have outnumbered them in term of the lawful migration system. and the gulf is getting wider every and every year. asia is the new source going forward of immigrants to the united states. it's going the new historical dynamic. so i predict my kid, when they are adults. they will look back and say, alex, why were so many people upset about his cantic or mexican immigrant. it's absurd. these indians or,...
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we definitely use it as a source. but you know, i think all of us are like this. we are trying to have these very traditional notions it is a new sort of tool to find out what people maybe are interested in. >> we have a more specific audience, politico focuses on these people who are absolutely in the room, making the policy. but we were more likely to also rely on a professor that could tell you about the dynamics or the overview. we wanted to get as close to the action as we could. we look at the original roll call vote. and so we put a heavy emphasis on original reporting. i think unlike some of the other panelists. our metabolism is not quite as -- it's not quite as feverish. but our goal is to do a thorough fact check. sometimes that takes a day and to be as thorough as we can. to take it back and check on them. to rely on secondhand sources. >> so this is something like walking up to someone like marco rubio come you can talk about how he is supporting them immigration reform. but it's also making other people and their party happy. i can talk to him direct
we definitely use it as a source. but you know, i think all of us are like this. we are trying to have these very traditional notions it is a new sort of tool to find out what people maybe are interested in. >> we have a more specific audience, politico focuses on these people who are absolutely in the room, making the policy. but we were more likely to also rely on a professor that could tell you about the dynamics or the overview. we wanted to get as close to the action as we could. we...
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they failed us. we have looked to our congressmen to do that, and to your credit, 40 times you guys have come instead to get rid of it. in santee, definition of is that we keep doing the same thing again. that's not going to cut it. so this is our last chance, and it's more than just you know, who is going to win the political powerpoint if we shut down government. it's going to be what will the future of the country are look like in a decade because once the tentacles are there it's, it's, it's too late to been dialed it back. look at social security. i think that is worth that risk. i also don't think it would come to that. >> well, i think it would come to that. and -- [inaudible] >> if i can finish my point. i think it would come to that and i don't think it would work. look, we can do as you suggest, that's no problem passing the original bill without it. that's fine but it's not going anyplace in the united states senate. it will have an attached to it and it will come back. at that point i rea
they failed us. we have looked to our congressmen to do that, and to your credit, 40 times you guys have come instead to get rid of it. in santee, definition of is that we keep doing the same thing again. that's not going to cut it. so this is our last chance, and it's more than just you know, who is going to win the political powerpoint if we shut down government. it's going to be what will the future of the country are look like in a decade because once the tentacles are there it's, it's,...
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you can also tweet us to use the hashtag #firstladies. here's a comment from our facebook page -- guest: really great question. we have a lot of bits of evidence that cumulatively show us that lucretia garfield was perhaps the first first lady to really have a strong conscientiousness about being part of a historical tradition of first ladies. in her diary, to my knowledge, the only diary kept by a first lady, she records an incident where one of her guests comes in and tells her about the night of the fall of richmond and being with mary lincoln. she writes in her diary that these little sorts of stories are the kinds of things she begins to accumulate and feels that there are some ghosts of the house. we will talk more about her later life -- she has a sense of sorority with the first ladies who came after her. host: on twitter -- guest: she thought of it as her home. in fact, later on when a well was being built in the back -- i can't remember, there was another structure -- sheallytude plans, and she was just incredibly interested in
you can also tweet us to use the hashtag #firstladies. here's a comment from our facebook page -- guest: really great question. we have a lot of bits of evidence that cumulatively show us that lucretia garfield was perhaps the first first lady to really have a strong conscientiousness about being part of a historical tradition of first ladies. in her diary, to my knowledge, the only diary kept by a first lady, she records an incident where one of her guests comes in and tells her about the...
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for us. and if we're a part of the creation of that along with our broadband colleagues, then this is going to go a lot more quickly. but if they put it together, put it out, it's wrong, it's got to go back, this could take a long, long time. i mean, when you think back on the analog to digital transition that i was a party to, that didn't affect all that much p repacking. this will affect 60%, perhaps, of the broadcast stations in this country. a huge job. big job. so it's important to get it right in the beginning. >> host: and finally, senator smith, last week on this program senator mark pryor, who's the chair of a commerce subcommittee, we asked him about whether or not the '96 telecom act needs to be updated and overhauled, and he expressed some reservations about that because it would open this can of worms, etc., etc., etc. from the nab's point of view -- >> guest: i suppose be, i never voted for a perfect law. they were always the product of compromise and trade-offs, and there's not
for us. and if we're a part of the creation of that along with our broadband colleagues, then this is going to go a lot more quickly. but if they put it together, put it out, it's wrong, it's got to go back, this could take a long, long time. i mean, when you think back on the analog to digital transition that i was a party to, that didn't affect all that much p repacking. this will affect 60%, perhaps, of the broadcast stations in this country. a huge job. big job. so it's important to get it...
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the language we decided not to use. the transition policy and of the work i'm doing is about reconfiguring omnipresence on the ground. so it may be tricky to talk about it that we but we don't talk about the exit of the peacekeeping mission we talk about the reconfiguration of the presence. and in the same way that interest you have a significant military drawdown but the continued united states presence in the country giving a range of things. so this may be the peacekeepers to believe but for us if you're a civilian agency on the ground probably before him and we will be on the ground afterwards so it's a decent way of communicating that message. obviously you can't avoid the reality is in the communications strategy that is how we are trying to deal with it. >> would you like to comment on that issue? >> the first one was planning for departure and then in the u.s. military as i've heard what does the success like and i think one of the reasons iraq reconstruction program lasted ten years almost was that we didn't ha
the language we decided not to use. the transition policy and of the work i'm doing is about reconfiguring omnipresence on the ground. so it may be tricky to talk about it that we but we don't talk about the exit of the peacekeeping mission we talk about the reconfiguration of the presence. and in the same way that interest you have a significant military drawdown but the continued united states presence in the country giving a range of things. so this may be the peacekeepers to believe but for...
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you'll be hearing from us. thank you so much. >> can you talk a little bit about how your own experience as a dwove nor has formed your negotiation on this? >> i would say even in states where we may not have governor's support the marries have been extraordinary. they are often on the front lines of delivering healthcare services and picking up the cost for unreimbursed care. i have found every place i've gone, texas and georgia and florida and other states where the governor may not be all in, the marries are all in, members of congress are all in, faith leaders and healthcare providers are enthusiastic. so there is a team on the ground who is eager to move forward. clearly this law will work better in states where everybody wants it to work. it is more challenging when there is misinformation put out on a regular basis where you have to tell people the law will apply to you. there are people who get up in texas who think the law won't even work in that state. so getting that information out. i think as a for
you'll be hearing from us. thank you so much. >> can you talk a little bit about how your own experience as a dwove nor has formed your negotiation on this? >> i would say even in states where we may not have governor's support the marries have been extraordinary. they are often on the front lines of delivering healthcare services and picking up the cost for unreimbursed care. i have found every place i've gone, texas and georgia and florida and other states where the governor may...
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, that they are with us, that they are supporting us, that's why gives us fuel to keep going. we have that drive, because just like trayvon is our son, i'm sure you have children, you have grandchildren, you have nieces and nephews that you have to care about as well. and it's very difficult that trayvon wasn't committing any crime. he was on his way home from the store. so how many other teenagers go to the store? that's how close it will hit home. that's my message, don't wait, don't wait until it's at your front door. don't wait until something happens to your child, your niece, your nephew, your grandson, granddaughter, godson. don't wait. this is the time to act now. this is the time to get involved, and don't just say, i support the foundation, i support the family. i think they're doing a great job. that's good, but it has to be more than that. we've created, through the negative images, and we had them, too, so it's negative energy when you're disappointed, is negative energy when you have a loss. we took that negative energy, and that's what we used to great the trayv
, that they are with us, that they are supporting us, that's why gives us fuel to keep going. we have that drive, because just like trayvon is our son, i'm sure you have children, you have grandchildren, you have nieces and nephews that you have to care about as well. and it's very difficult that trayvon wasn't committing any crime. he was on his way home from the store. so how many other teenagers go to the store? that's how close it will hit home. that's my message, don't wait, don't wait...
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you can send us a tweet, make sure you use the #firstladies. you can also post a question or comment on our facebook page. we have a conversation already started there. or you can phone us here are our phone lines. if you live in the eastern or central time zones 202-585-3880, or out west, 202-585-3881. we'll get for your comments and questions in a minute. our guests referred to letters written to jane pierce's son. we're going to learn about that next. we're going to travel to the new hampshire historical society which holds the papers of the pierce family and see two important letters in understanding of the will the story of jane pierce. >> this letter was written by benny pierce who was 11 years old. from andover, massachusetts, where he was visiting with his cousins in june of 1852. at the time the franklin pierce was nominated for president at democratic national convention in baltimore. franklin and his mother had been in boston waiting for news of the nomination. and benny was staying with relatives in andover. benny, knowing how much
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us. please welcome the ceo of the king center, bernice. >> good afternoon, everybody. i know it's late and i have two minutes they told me. but i first want to thank the national urban league for the tremendous work that they have been doing over a century. and we could not have made its had not been for the urban league. so i want to thank them to the time honored to be here this afternoon a part of the coalition that has been planning the 50th anniversary celebration. and i wanted to just say something that i say quite often when we look at the convergence of so many things that happened this year the mirror that happened in 63 and in many respects it makes some of us feel like we have been setbacks it may be true but it may not be true as well. it could be a tremendous opportunity in a set up for us to really organize and mobilize and really create the momentum that happened in 63. but my mother had a quote where she set struggle is a never-ending process. freedom is never really run.
us. please welcome the ceo of the king center, bernice. >> good afternoon, everybody. i know it's late and i have two minutes they told me. but i first want to thank the national urban league for the tremendous work that they have been doing over a century. and we could not have made its had not been for the urban league. so i want to thank them to the time honored to be here this afternoon a part of the coalition that has been planning the 50th anniversary celebration. and i wanted to...
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there are some of us here old enough to remember we used to be able to walk across and have lunch in nogales and walked back. think about doing that today. you bring up problems on the border, and with this surveillance capability, we will be able to keep people back, and then we will be able to send these teams out. finally, the coyotes. we know these coyotes are the worst scum-of-the-earth people, and they are bringing people into tucson and up to phoenix and putting them in drop houses where they hold them in the most unspeakable conditions and then hold them for ransom that their families back in mexico. it is an argument for getting our borders secure, but also an argument for us to address the entire issue of illegal immigration. i thank you for your passion. yes, sir. >> [indiscernible] >> go ahead. >> you are not answering why and what we are going to do with border patrol agents. [indiscernible] >> every citizen of this country has the benefit of innocence of proven guilty. that is a fundamental quality of our democracy. there should be complete and thorough investigation, c
there are some of us here old enough to remember we used to be able to walk across and have lunch in nogales and walked back. think about doing that today. you bring up problems on the border, and with this surveillance capability, we will be able to keep people back, and then we will be able to send these teams out. finally, the coyotes. we know these coyotes are the worst scum-of-the-earth people, and they are bringing people into tucson and up to phoenix and putting them in drop houses where...
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president, send us social -- send us a mandate down from the grand chapter and tell us what, point us in a direction and send it out and let us go out and do it. i've been doing stuff with the fraternity and working with the zeta's for years and he's. so send us out something to do. give us some direction. secondly, i want to mention is, in 1963 our kids, when black boys are coming out of high school, the folks on the local board were there to give us our -- we were conscripted to the army. and the local board just ripped our families apart. took our youngsters and send them off to vietnam. and now, it's not the local board anymore, but it's the courthouse we are sending our kids off to prison. part of the mandate that i'm going to ask for is what of it going to do with that great mass of people who are incarcerated, who are coming out of the prison, and having nothing to do? and how are we going to help them? and i think that that's a focus because that's a lot of people that we can conscripted to do things that will be positive in the community. >> let me respond to what he said. th
president, send us social -- send us a mandate down from the grand chapter and tell us what, point us in a direction and send it out and let us go out and do it. i've been doing stuff with the fraternity and working with the zeta's for years and he's. so send us out something to do. give us some direction. secondly, i want to mention is, in 1963 our kids, when black boys are coming out of high school, the folks on the local board were there to give us our -- we were conscripted to the army. and...
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and you can find lot more about us on our website, you can also find us on facebook, on twitter, and instagram. certainly one of the things we very much enjoy doing is partnering with other great organizations response -- [inaudible] >> disrupted thinkers began in 2011 in san diego. we feature chapters in nashville, austin, and toronto, and d.c. our mission is to innovate by connecting military government leaders with entrepreneur and creative thinkers to provide the tools and networks we need to bring our disruptive thought in to action. we're bringing these two organizations together today because we both share a common belief that tomorrow's leaders in a foreign policy and national secure try going to need the trait of entrepreneurship in order change their organization and agencies. >> now i would like that make two introduction. the first is my colleague to my right. kristin. she'll be live tweeting the event with the twitter account. and she'll also be using #-- the two organizations. you can use that #to live tweet yourself or later during q & a if you don't want to ask a ques
and you can find lot more about us on our website, you can also find us on facebook, on twitter, and instagram. certainly one of the things we very much enjoy doing is partnering with other great organizations response -- [inaudible] >> disrupted thinkers began in 2011 in san diego. we feature chapters in nashville, austin, and toronto, and d.c. our mission is to innovate by connecting military government leaders with entrepreneur and creative thinkers to provide the tools and networks we...
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it forces us to think about history can you tell us what his next? >> i am interested in the thousands of orders since the beginning of civilization. but what gives the romans to say that that is not enough. why do they say that is it. they are frightening concepts. i'm looking at the cases that talk about the existential destruction with all of these residents and we are looking at nuclear iran. we are looking at the exit central and of all things. >> host: thank you for your contribution. >> guest: thank you for having me today. >> booktv's book club returns next month with this town, to parties and a funeral plus plenty of parking. read the book and engage on her facebook page and look for daily book club hosts to get the conversation going, including links to interviews of the author and reviews of the author from the booktv archives. >> during chuck hagel's news conference on monday with his chinese counterpart commenters asked about the situation in egypt. you can see the entire event online at c-span.org. here is some of what he said. >> i kno
it forces us to think about history can you tell us what his next? >> i am interested in the thousands of orders since the beginning of civilization. but what gives the romans to say that that is not enough. why do they say that is it. they are frightening concepts. i'm looking at the cases that talk about the existential destruction with all of these residents and we are looking at nuclear iran. we are looking at the exit central and of all things. >> host: thank you for your...
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let us not -- let us stop thinking, somebody else is going to do this for us. we must do this for ourselves and our children. there are many devastating issues confronting our people. while i cannot identify all of these issues in the minutes that i have been allotted, i would like to concentrate on a few and help us to understand our and concentrate on a few of the evils of injustice and help us to create change. the most degrading of these evils is dominating the conversation and all of our communities. and that is racial profiling. if you are african-american, you cannot help but be el raged at the racial profiling that is occurring in practically every region of this country and into many states. the poster city for racial profiling is new york city where mayor bloomberg and police commissioner ray kelly insist on vigorously defending their stop and frisk policy, which is demeaning and demoralizing to and for our black men and is creating this respect and even hatred for the officers carrying out these policies. racial profiling does not make our neighbor i
let us not -- let us stop thinking, somebody else is going to do this for us. we must do this for ourselves and our children. there are many devastating issues confronting our people. while i cannot identify all of these issues in the minutes that i have been allotted, i would like to concentrate on a few and help us to understand our and concentrate on a few of the evils of injustice and help us to create change. the most degrading of these evils is dominating the conversation and all of our...